In order to enable an iCal export link, your account needs to have an API key created. This key enables other applications to access data from within Indico even when you are neither using nor logged into the Indico system yourself with the link provided. Once created, you can manage your key at any time by going to 'My Profile' and looking under the tab entitled 'HTTP API'. Further information about HTTP API keys can be found in the Indico documentation.

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Additionally to having an API key associated with your account, exporting private event information requires the usage of a persistent signature. This enables API URLs which do not expire after a few minutes so while the setting is active, anyone in possession of the link provided can access the information. Due to this, it is extremely important that you keep these links private and for your use only. If you think someone else may have acquired access to a link using this key in the future, you must immediately create a new key pair on the 'My Profile' page under the 'HTTP API' and update the iCalendar links afterwards.

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CERN

Motivations and Objectives

The ambitious upgrade programme for CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will result in significant challenges related to information and communications technologies (ICTs) over the next decade and beyond. It is therefore vital that we — members of the high-energy physics (HEP) research community and beyond — keep looking for innovative technologies, so as to ensure that we can continue to maximise the discovery potential of the world-leading research infrastructures at our disposal. Technologies related to quantum computing hold the promise of substantially speeding up computationally expensive tasks.

While significant developments are being made in the field of quantum computing, today’s hardware has not yet reached the level at which it could be put into production within our community. Both established computing vendors and start-up companies are carrying out important activity in this field. Nevertheless, it remains difficult to foresee when more stable hardware — capable of providing concrete benefits for the HEP community — will be available.

Given both the potential and the uncertainty surrounding quantum computing, it is important to explore what these new technologies could bring to our field. It is also incumbent upon us to improve our understanding of which of our activities could most benefit from quantum-computing algorithms, as well as working to understand what the overall impact on the computing models used within HEP are likely to be. A large part of this work can be carried out today using on quantum simulators.

To ensure this activity is a success, it is vital that that we bring the whole community together, fostering common activities and knowledge sharing. CERN openlab is therefore capitalising on its deep connections with the HEP community and its well-established links across many of the world’s leading ICT companies to set up this kick-off workshop. As well as providing a forum for sharing knowledge and ideas, the event will serve to provide an overview of the current state of quantum-computing technologies and will help us all to understand which activities within the HEP community most well suited to the application of such technologies.